Amma Darko Faceless Paperback - January 1, 1996 by Amma Darko (Author) 4 ratings Paperback $24.00 13 Used from $2.98 8 New from $10.35 Street life in the slums of Accra is realistically portrayed in this socially-commited, subtle novel about four educated women who are inspired by the plight of a 14-year old girl, Fofo. Amma Darko (born 1956) is a Ghanaian novelist. She had won The Golden Baobab Prize for one of her novels. She has published seven novels in total. Contents 1 Life and writing 2 Bibliography 3 Scholarly works about Darko's writings 4 List of Works 5 References 6 External links Life and writing She was born in Koforidua, Ghana, and grew up in Accra. This paper attempts a critical analysis of two of Amma Darko's novels, Faceless (2003) and Not Without Flowers (2005). It identifies how Darko uses prose fiction as a vehicle to cross-examine the complexities of the Ghanaian woman's life in relation to culture and gender. Through in-depth study, critical appreciation, and critical textual literature being the domain of visibility and audibility, especially in problematizing african women's space, several researchers have interrogated amma darko's faceless from various angles, to point out the socio economic and political problems faced by women and or children (basically girl children); but, however, our reading of the novel … Faceless By Amma Darko by bookkeepers: 1:35pm On Apr 30, 2015. Faceless is the pathetic and gripping story of children plunged into the streets by poverty and parental neglect. Amma Darko in very graphic details presents mind-boggling sociological issues of child-neglect, child abuse, defilement of girls, gender, child-trafficking, child-labour Faceless Amma Darko 2003 Street life in the slums of Accra is realistically portrayed in this socially-commited, subtle novel about four educated women who are inspired by the plight of a 14-year old girl, Fofo. As the main characters convert their library center into a practical street initiative, the novel invokes the Read Online African Prose: Faceless by Amma Darko JAMB UTME, NECO and WAEC Literature Comprehensive Summary.ABOUT THE AUTHOR Analysis of "Faceless" Amma Darko was born in Koforidua, Ghana, and grew up in Accra. She studied in Kumasi, where she received her diploma in 1980. She is one of the most significant contemporary Ghanaian literary writers. Kabria's Children and Abena, the Househelp. In Chapter Four of Faceless, the narrator tells the reader a lot about the idiosyncrasies of each one of Kabria's three children. In most cases, the behaviours exhibited by Obea, Essie and Ottu add to Kabria's irritation and her feeling of being under pressure. Obea. Faceless exceeds other works in artistic intensity and complexity. In this novel, Darko defines female sexuality in terms of a complex trope of transformation from voiceless voices to voices and movements beyond faceless to the face or the person. She urges women to make their voices heard so that their lives are sustainable. Picking from Faceless by Amma Darko and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun and with what is going in our society; sexual abuse is everywhere - in schools, homes and communities. It occurs across all socio-economic levels, with 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 10 boys falling victim before the age of 18. Background of the study. This chapter will be an eye opener to the menace of sexual abuse in a reading of "faceless" by Amma Darko. Sexual abuse, in Deegeer, (2011